Basing his work on the recent findings of scholars in many European countries and the US, Jacques Pauwels explains how Hitler gained and held the support of powerful business interests who found the well-liked ...

What role does history play in contemporary society? Has the frenetic pace of today’s world led people to lose contact with the past? A high-profile team of researchers from across Canada sought to ...

In the years immediately following the First World War and the 1917 Russian Revolution, many of those on the British Left were tempted, to a greater or lesser degree, by what Ian Bullock calls the “myth” ...

In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed. ...

Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities is a study of the social and cultural integration of two migrations of German speakers from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to Winnipeg, Canada ...

Colonel Gerald W. L. Nicholson (1902-1980) served with the Prince Albert Volunteers. He is the author of The Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945 and Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919, both part of the ...

Sir John Seeley once wrote that the British Empire was acquired in “a fit of absence of mind. ” Whatever the truth of this comment, it is certainly arguable that the Empire was dismantled in such ...

In 1860, Queen Victoria sent her eighteen-year-old son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on a goodwill mission to Canada and the United States. The young heir-apparent (later King Edward VII) had not yet ...

The memoir of a young woman who in 1951 at the age of 17 was arrested for her involvement with an underground organization demanding alternatives to Stalinist rule and as a result spent five years in ...

A wonderful history of the Red Indians of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book shares all available information conce ing every aspect of Beothuk life-housing, clothing, hunting methods, arts ...